Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: donation page draft
Hi Marc, thanks for all your proposals, I've incorporated them! :) Marc Paré wrote on 2012-08-28 22:16: Note: I am also unsure as to why there are so many linked .pdf documents. Why are these not available on a web page instead of a file download? The text in these files should be posted somewhere on our website rather than asking visitors to make use of additional software to inform themselves of our mission statement, core values etc. I totally agree - it's one of the todo tasks on the table to collect documents and put them into a website. As I want to use the page already for today's announcement, I've linked to the PDFs, but that definitely should be improved for the future. :) That is great! Does this mean that some users could donate towards a specific budget item? I'm not sure, as this opens a can of worms, especially with regards to accounting. So rather than to make individual donations possible at large, I'd like to show what the money will be used for. Florian -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: donation page
Hi, Michael Meeks wrote on 2011-11-15 18:33: Please CC me on replies, since I'm not subscribed to the list, and can't follow all lists in linear time [ as you do so curse reply-to: mangling please ;-]. done. ;-) Reply-to-mangling is a topic on the moderators list, and I hope to have a fix in place soon. The donate page looks substantially better these days - which is I simply forwarded all challenge-pages to the donation page at the LibreOffice site itself, so we at least remove the we don't need any more money notion. ;-) encouraging. I suggest we add the pretty piggy-bank logo on the download page, at the bottom/right to point at this page too as/when we have polished it up. Cc'ing the website list, as I like that idea. Can someone have a look on this? I think the current text is rather good. I'd sort the SPI link to the top though, and the flatr link below paypal, and have some side-by-side divs with the huge Fries Office address bank details block on the right. Hopefully that'll get it into a single page. Sounds good. Same question here, Cc'ing the website list: Anyone wants to work on that? I also think that something graphical would be really helpful here; a single rotating image as on the front-page, with a caption of: how we spend your money - with a selection of a pictures: Image / embedded caption: Munich Hack-Fest - hack fests to work on the code Paris / LibreOffice conf - conferences to co-ordinate and excite generic? server hardware - hardware to host infrastructure Italo at some conference - travel subsidy for speakers ODF plug-fest picture - standards work to enhance ODF That's exactly what we wanted, indeed. Showing how we actually spend the money. I consider a general polishing up of the page plus linking from the download site most crucial, but the above proposal would be a very nice addendum to that, so... volunteers? ;-) Or somesuch ? if people agree, I can help put the images together and make a mess of them to the point that someone clueful is provoked to do it right ? :-) :) Wrt. the text, I'd move the we prefer volunteers rubric from the bottom up, and say: You are encouraged to send cash donations by one of these channels or somesuch, with a bit more cosmetic text tweaking as we put it in place. How does that sound ? +1 Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Board of Directors at The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: donation page
On 11/15/11 6:33 PM, Michael Meeks wrote: Italo at some conference - travel subsidy for speakers Please use the attached picture: the photographer at LinuxCon in Prague was just amazing. -- Italo Vignoli - italo.vign...@gmail.com phone +39.348.5653829 - VoIP +39.02.320621813 skype italovignoli - gtalk italo.vign...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: donation page
Hi Drew, Cc'ing Michael, as he wanted to work on the donation page. drew wrote on 2011-10-23 19:29: I recall Drew was working on a new donation page, but due to the conference, I honestly lost plot on this a bit. Drew, can you let me know the status quo? Pretty much where it was with my last email..which might be good. :-) Thanks for your work on this! What I did in the meantime was to redirect challenge.documentfoundation.org to the current donations website, as the content on challenge was quite outdated already. and that was: - added an unpublished Donate page to the LibreOffice.org site To www.libreoffice.org, I guess? - the actual donate form didn't work, my fault as I simply did a copy paste from the challenge site..I'll look in the email archive for the hows and whys and hows. It should be sufficient to add $PayPalTDF as text, then the donation button should appear. - also tried to create a couple of virtual pages, but then this is not correct if you think about it as this approach to different languages wasn't virtual pages. IMHO, we simply added a page to each website rather than using virtual pages or localization pages. However, as soon as we have a master page in English, we can ask the folks over at the website list what's best. I suppose the thing to do now is just to finish the en page and to do that how about we look again at [1] http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/donate/ my first thought was simply to move that page to http://libreoffice.org/donate but I suppose this is also a great moment to re-write that page a bit..it's seems a little sparse on actual copy that ASKS for a donation. Rewriting is a good idea. We should mention what we do with the money, what we are about, why donations are important and so on. The current donation page pretty much reflects the challenge campaign and at some places even states that we had enough money, which of course is wrong. ;-) Also, noted the email from Sophie about the update to the SPI donation page, that reference needs to be updated on this page. Hm, seems I missed the plot - what it's about? Alright - I guess the first thing is that first paragraph, that's short and sweet but maybe just one initial sentence as to why 'they' should donate. Exactly. hmmm... I need to go paint a few window frames, now while it is a bright sunny fall day [a shrinking resource this year]...and will think about that first sentence while watching the brush strokes. Thanks! Maybe you can coordinate with Michael, who wanted to work on that. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Board of Directors at The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: donation page
Hi *, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Cc'ing Michael, as he wanted to work on the donation page. drew wrote on 2011-10-23 19:29: [...] - the actual donate form didn't work, my fault as I simply did a copy paste from the challenge site..I'll look in the email archive for the hows and whys and hows. It should be sufficient to add $PayPalTDF as text, then the donation button should appear. Additional requirement: page must be of type DonationPage - if the page type is set to something different, you can change it on the Behaviour tab within the CMS. [...] ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: donation page
On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 12:46 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, I recall Drew was working on a new donation page, but due to the conference, I honestly lost plot on this a bit. Drew, can you let me know the status quo? Pretty much where it was with my last email..which might be good. and that was: - added an unpublished Donate page to the LibreOffice.org site - the actual donate form didn't work, my fault as I simply did a copy paste from the challenge site..I'll look in the email archive for the hows and whys and hows. - also tried to create a couple of virtual pages, but then this is not correct if you think about it as this approach to different languages wasn't virtual pages. I suppose the thing to do now is just to finish the en page and to do that how about we look again at [1] http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/donate/ my first thought was simply to move that page to http://libreoffice.org/donate but I suppose this is also a great moment to re-write that page a bit..it's seems a little sparse on actual copy that ASKS for a donation. Also, noted the email from Sophie about the update to the SPI donation page, that reference needs to be updated on this page. so...here is the text from the first paragraph on the page: - Donate All donations will be fed directly into the future foundation's budget to cover operating expenses. Freies Office Deutschland e.V. is a German-based association. Donations to it are tax-deductible inside Germany. For information on tax-deductibility outside Germany please contact your local tax office. - followed by a list of donation sites: -bank transfer -paypal widget -Flatter -SPI so it's a long page that the user must scroll down. [1] Alright - I guess the first thing is that first paragraph, that's short and sweet but maybe just one initial sentence as to why 'they' should donate. hmmm... I need to go paint a few window frames, now while it is a bright sunny fall day [a shrinking resource this year]...and will think about that first sentence while watching the brush strokes. Back in a few hours with a draft then, //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
